Native Notes

The International Institute for Indigenous Resource Management is a law and policy research institute. Established in Denver, Colorado by Mervyn L. Tano in 1997, the Institute’s cadre of internationally-based legal scholars and researchers work on a wide range of cutting-edge projects designed to empower native peoples by examining the role the law can play in establishing and enhancing indigenous peoples’ control over and management of their lands and resources.

We also study ways indigenous peoples can control the impacts of science and technology on their societies and help build and strengthen native legal, technical, management, and other systems and institutions.

We’ll publish news, commentary, and other useful information in these pages.  We’ll strive to avoid the hackneyed and to scrutinize conventional wisdom and the politically-correct notions about indigenous peoples.  What we’ll not avoid is the controversial.